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Professor Regina Barzilay of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), is the first winner of the Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, in recognition for her work developing machine learning models to develop antibiotics and other drugs, and to detect and diagnose breast cancer at early stages.

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and Squirrel AI Learning announced the establishment of a new $1M annual award for societal benefits of AI.

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) have formed a joint working group to develop national guidelines for teaching K-12 students about artificial intelligence.

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) awarded Senior Member status to 25 distinguished AAAI members at the recent 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, July 27-31.

Each year AAAI recognizes a small number of distinguished AI scientists for their outstanding contributions to the theory or practice of AI by electing them AAAI Fellows — a lifetime honor. An official dinner and ceremony was held in their honor during the AAAI-14 Conference in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada on July 28, 2014.

Each year AAAI recognizes a small number of distinguished AI scientists for their outstanding contributions to the theory or practice of AI by electing them AAAI Fellows — a lifetime honor. An official dinner and ceremony was held in their honor during the AAAI‐13 Conference in Bellevue, Washington, USA on July 16, 2013.